"Did you get the message?" The old lady asked the young man sitting at the table.
"Yeah, we already staged a fight." The Third Prince said with a sigh. "I still don't approve of the plan. My baby sister will get hurt."
"They were engaged for the plan, don't worry, no one will marry your sister. She will die pure." Adrian said with frustration. This brother of his was too protective when it came to the little princess.
"It's still gonna hurt her." The Third Prince pouted as he looked away.
"How did you manage to learn those letters though? Doesn't matter how hard I try to decipher, I don't understand anything." Grandma asked in curiosity.
"I don't get how he solved my secret alphabet," Prince said in desperation. "I showed it to him once."
"Whatever, let's get over it once again," Adrian said as he looked at the map of the palace. "I will be here. Ezio is going to draw Xiao Chen here. Then I will do my act. I will make him follow me, and bam, we are going to corner him."
"Sounds good, but we cannot let anything go wrong." The Third Prince said as he looked at the Sect Leader. "Will Envoys cooperate?"
"They are on board, don't worry," Grandma said as she took one last look at the map. "I hope it works."
"It will. And even if it doesn't, this is our only choice." Adrian said. "I will kill that bastard."
"Let's go over it once again to make sure." The Third Prince said as he laid down the map. "My Sis— The fate of the Kingdom is at stake."
"Siscon," Adrian muttered.
"What did you say, bastard?" The Third Prince flared.
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A day after Ezio left the Domain
"Master Yontu, I was waiting for you for quite a while." Li Long said when Yontu entered Jiangs' shop.
"So I heard," Yontu said with a serious expression. It had only been a day since he learned his master died, and he was still feeling guilty, but his thirst for revenge was keeping him sane.
"I wanted to invite Master Yontu to the sect for a private business. I wonder if Master Yontu is interested." The old fool said with a glint in his eyes.
"Sure thing, Mr. Long." Yontu said with a smile as he opened the door, "Let's go."
"Now?" Li Long asked in shock. "We are not prepared."
"Prepared for what, Mr. Long?" Yontu asked with a frown.
"We would like to prepare a feast beforehand to satisfy such an esteemed guest." Li Long tried to explain.
"No need, let's go," Yontu said and started to walk away. With no other choice, Li Long followed and soon they arrived at the sect. Although people were surprised, no one acted out and they all followed the plans their master had instructed. Soon, Yontu was in a meeting room.
"What do you need, Mr. Long?" Yontu asked after they were seated. Li Long looked around and sent the elders out after some time.
"To be honest, Master Yontu, we were tasked to pull you in here to set up an ambush, but you came before we could prepare. Now that I am at your mercy, I want to be honest. Please kill me but spare my sect." Li Long said with a sullen face. "Xiao Chen forced me to."
"You know, Mr. Long, you made the right choice. It is not always easy to kill people in their own sect, but I knew you were scheming against me for some time, so I was prepared." Yontu said with a smile. Ever since the tournament, he was suspecting that Zeus's Fury was working with Xiao Chen. After the tournament, during the six-month waiting time, he prepared special pills for each sect. After all, Jiang Yong was handing out each batch to each sect's worker. Since he was suspecting something like this may happen, he had Alcy put some of his essence into the pills so he would be able to use the old trick once again.
"Now tell me, why are you working with Xiao Chen?" He asked as he crossed his legs.
"Master Yontu, Xiao Chen is my nephew." Li Long said then started to explain. He was originally from the Violet Kingdom. He was King's illegitimate brother. When he awakened his first Signium from the Fourth Curtain, instead of being left to die, he was sent to the Azure Kingdom as a sleep agent. He joined Zeus's Fury because his Signium was also the Lightning elemental, and slowly made his way up. It had been tens of years since he was here, and one day, his bastard nephew showed up and showed him the letter his brother sent.
"I hate my brother and that bastard. Originally I wanted them to topple the King so I could go back, but now I don't want to. That son of a b*tch killed my direct disciple." Li Long said with a sad expression.
"Shi Yang was your personal disciple?" Yontu asked.
"Yes, sir." The old man said as he looked at the ceiling but he was suspicious. How did mighty Master Yontu know such a small figure? "The best student I had."
Understanding what was going on and his slip of tongue, Ezio cursed himself in his heart and said, "My disciple told me what went in the domain."
Without letting Li Long ask, he questioned, "What can you sacrifice to have your revenge?"
"Everything." Li Long said without any hesitation.
"Are you willing to sell your soul for it?" Yontu asked again. Li Long looked conflicted for a while, but then remembered what his brother did to him. How he forced him to go to another Kingdom.
"I am!" Li Long said.
"Good." Yontu nodded contently. "Here is what we are going to do."
Two nights later, Yontu appeared in Zeus's Fury sect, and the next day, the sect was a ghost town. No one knew what happened to the people inside the sect. There were no bodies, no sign of fights, nothing. The treasury was emptied, and everything was taken away.
This was the second time Master Yontu struck, and people were used to it by now. If you try to cheat Mr. Yontu, he takes your soul as payment. It was that simple.